This is an analysis of the poem To A Southern Statesman that begins with:
IS this thy voice whose treble notes of fear
Wail in the wind? And dost thou shake to hear,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbcdcddeeffeaeafffgggghhccijjiXaffffaff
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 41,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 0011110101 1001111101 101010111 10011101011 1101011101 01011000101 0111000101 111111001001 11011111001 11011101101 111100110101 10010001101 1101010101 11111111010 11000101001 11111011010 1011010111 0111111111 1001011111 1011010101 1001011101 1101010101 1011001000 1101111101 0101110101 1011000101 1011010101 101111011101 11010001101 1111011111 1000011111 0101011010 1011000100 1101010111 1111110100 01011100111 0011010101 1111110101 01001010111 1011001110 110101010001
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1878
- Average number of words per stanza: 340
- Amount of lines: 41
- Average number of symbols per line: 45 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
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